Minutes: Barb Grenga, FACS teacher; Cicero-North Syracuse HS who has recently been awarded an administrative degree presented “ APPR for the FACS Teacher at the February NYSAFCSE Meeng. She went over exactly what administrators were being trained to watch for. Rosanne took careful notes and presented the same informaon to our group.

Handouts were provided. Lori Johnson, presented what she has learned from APL Classroom Management training. Handouts were provided and a PowerPoint was sent out in email.

NYSAFCSE award forms were handed out and Peggy sent out an email with the list of NYSAFCSE members who were eligible. Peggy discussed the need for us all to advocate for FACS programs and the lack of FACS teachers available to replace retirees. The average age of a FACS teacher is 48. There are 8+ teachers in our three county area rering in the next few years—the state graduated 9 FACS teachers last year. It would be very easy to an unemployed teacher to recerfy in FACS and be working! Teachers should be leaving this info in their sub folders and pung the word out through social media.

MV_West FACS Collaboration Team Date: TBA (Survey is out to see what date the most of us can attend) Time: 4:30-6:30 Location : Mount Markham Middle School (With possible move to the HS at some point during the meeting) Meeting Topic: I-Pads in the Classroom ·Using i-pads for learning disabled students·Splashtop to run your computer (with a projector) wirelessly from the I –Pad·Reflector – to project your I-Pad wirelessly on the projector·Aurasma –Using Augmented Reality in the Classroom·If Mount Markham’s HS teacher (Cathie Peck) can attend we will also check out some things she does withher interactive Smartboard

Future meetings will be held at different districts within our two county region!

September MeetingMVWest met at Herkimer Jr/Sr. High School from 4-6 pm on September 10, 2014Members attending: Cathie Peck, Peggy Zurn, Pamela Boynton, Cory Cooley, RosAnne Mastrangelo, Chris Manne, Maria Burton, Adele Aiello, Gabriella Couchman, Lori Johnson, Beth MosherIt was decided that we would start meeting the second Wednesday of the month rather than the first Wednesday.Cathie Peck…brought Bitrex Taste Test Challenge (sample sticks) and the petition to include it in all toxic household chemicals. You won’t take a second taste of that chemical! You can go a google search for this and get a kit to do a test challenge for child safety.Peggy Z went over google search techniques which apply to FACS. We looked at the reading level search and the recipe search. When teachers are looking for articles for class they can refine their search by beginner, intermediate and advanced reading levels. We also worked with refining recipe searches by ingredient , prep time, and calories (in google, type in chicken francaise….go to search tools and you will see the tabs to refine the search) This doesn’t work with all recipes but it is a nice tool!Time was spent doing both types of searches.We then started looking at google forms. Peggy Z showed “Getting to Know You” survey that she used with parents and students. Can’t say that members were all that impresses until they saw the database that resulted when students and parents took the survey. We heard a few “NICE’s!”To finish off the meeting we looked at Weebly as an alternative to MyBigCampus as a classroom webpage. Weebly is very user friendly and attractive. You can embed YouTube videos in the pages for students to watch in their own time. The downside of Weebly is that the free version doesn’t have an option to store files BUT, don’t worry, with all the cloud based servers today you can easily link put links out to dropbox/onedrive (or any other cloud based storage) . Our meeting for the rest of the 2014 year will be: October 8 @ Herkimer Jr/Sr High 4-6 pmNovember 12 TBADecember 10 TBA